Article UMAC Journal

Author(s):

Sue-Anne Wallace

Title:

Challenges facing university museums

Published in:

Intensifying Support For and Increasing Audiences in University Museums and Collections, Proceedings of the First Conference of the International Committee of
ICOM for University Museums and Collections (UMAC), Barcelona, 2-4 July 2001 – Aus: MUSEOLOGIA - an international journal of museology, Volume 2, No. 1-2,
pp. 11-16

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Abstract (eng):

Universities have apparently enthusiastically embraced new ventures in taking on responsibilities for cultural institutions, such as museums and theatres. Museums, especially, have long been integral to campuses, growing out of teaching collections, particularly in fields of science and the humanities - for herbaria and medical collections on the one hand and antiquities and art collections on the other. Indeed, art collections have occasionally developed independently from the teaching and learning functions of universities, posing questions about their 'fit' with the core business of the contemporary, corporate university.